11/14/2016

Scientific news

Multiscale co-evolution in and of proteins

Having a long-standing interest in the phenomenon of molecular coevolution in proteins, Martin Weigt’s team shows in PNAS how a technique called Direct-Coupling Analysis – initially developed by M. Weigt and coworkers to detect contacts between residues based on amino-acid sequences alone – can predict interactions between proteins on multiple scales. [...]

09/19/2016

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mouseTube published in video

The mouseTube database launched in February 2015 by Nicolas Torquet (IBPS) and Élodie Ey (Pasteur Institute), has recently published results in an uncommon format: a video film! These results were indeed released in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVe), which publishes video-only articles. [...]

07/05/2016

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The Fondation de l'Avenir at the IBPS

The Fondation de l’Avenir recently visited Onnik Agbulut’s team at the IBPS. The team was then presented on the foundation website and in the June 2016 issue of its newsletter. 

Founded in 1987 and recognized as a public interest structure, the Fondation de l’Avenir supports research projects in order to advance medical and surgical progress in France. [...] 

06/27/2016

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The Imagine Science Paris festival in partnership with the IBPS

The 1^st edition of the Imagine Science Paris held from 2 to 4 June 2016 met a great success from the public who discovered around thirty short and full-length films relating to art and science. Partner of the event, the Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine has welcomed part of the festival. [...]

06/13/2016

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The IBPS offers a PhD position in Neuroscience

We invite applications from talented and motivated PhD candidates for a position available at the Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), to work on the dynamics of cAMP/cGMP signaling in migrating and differentiating newly-produced neurons of the adult forebrain in normal and Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) model mice. [...]

04/27/2016

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Curiosity is not a "bad" defect in mice

In a recent publication in Nature neuroscience, Philippe Faure and his team have shown that under uncertainty, mice tend to explore their environment to comprehend it better. [...]

04/27/2016

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Start-up: OxiProteomics measures the oxidation state of the proteome

The start-up OxiProteomics, created by IBPS researchers (UMR 8256), uses the Oxi-DIGE (DIfferential Gel Electrophoresis) technology to visualize and quantify the oxidation of proteins. It has just received the operating licence, which will enable it to develop its activity. [...]

02/25/2016

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Tara uncovers the oceans « carbon pump »

The last publication issued by Tara Oceans in Nature describes the network of planktonic organisms that participates to the carbon sink constituted by the oceans of our planet and explains how it functions. Lucie Bittner is co-first author of this publication highlighting the importance of interdisciplinarity between oceanography, genomics and computer science. [...]

02/01/2016

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ARTBio, the IBPS Bioinformatics facility

The IBPS has its bioinformatics facility! Named ARTbio, it is managed by Christophe Antoniewski, who initiated the project.

12/03/2015

Scientific news

FMRP is essential to the plasticity of the olfactory bulb neurons